Anytime I want to look up and enjoy the scenery or interesting structures, I get a camera full of grass, or rocks, or something. Since the camera is lower, to play normally I have to be pointed downwards more than any other race. Sometimes it's hard to enjoy the scenery as an Asura, unless you're standing in a bare spot with nothing on the ground around you.

I propose a fix as a slider. The slider would adjust the height of the camera where it is centered on your character. I drew a picture of how it is now, and how a slider could move it up. The camera being higher would make it easier to see around you without the camera being close/touching the ground.

As you can see here, if I want to see what's around me, I have grass in my screen constantly. You could argue, zooming out all the way helps, but you shouldn't be forced to zoom out all the way just to make the camera more useful for seeing what's in front of you.

We Asura invented fast travel waypoints, asura gates, golems, computers, weather control devices, hovering bridges, energy windows and we live IN A GIANT FLOATING CUBE above a jungle. Yet, we STILL haven't invented a vertical slider for the camera? I'm telling you, it's another example of High Council bureaucracy at its finest, holding our krewes back from developing their ideas. We shouldn't stand for it.

My camera just makes me/people/things go invisible and lets my sight clip through walls to see into the great blue infinity of the beyond.
Bug reported a few of them, but I got tired of it. They only started after that second patch last night or w/e, and they only happened on DR and Queensdale. NEVER had it happen in any of the other cities/starting zones yet :/

As a fellow Asura Necromancer, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS! And the Jumping Puzzle stuff! Its hard enough thinking your about to fall off of the puzzle and die at any moment without the camera going some random direction! PLEASE!

Oh god, I tried some jumping puzzles today, and they were just ABSOLUTELY AWFUL. Every time I would go near a wall, my camera would glitch out like once a second. Made it extremely uncomfortable. Would be nice to have a first person camera simply for the jumping puzzles and screenshots.

Charr/Norn have the opposite issues. Often times during jumping puzzles with low ceilings, my camera ends up getting stuck in the wall, resulting in it remaining still while I continue to move until I get away from the wall. Soooo many deaths from being unable to figure out which ways my movement keys will take me due to stuck cameras. :(

I have a charr with the largest body size. I love this game so much, but fuck that well jumping puzzle. If I wasn't an engineer with rifle 5, it would have been completely impossible to complete with all the camera lockups staring straight at walls. I run into the issue in a lot of places, but that was by far the worst/most frustrating.

I'm a small human and my boyfriend plays a taller Sylvari. He complains too about the poor camera and how it super zooms in when we're trying to do some vistas or jumping puzzles. It's really insane you have to make a jump of blind faith hoping you're in the right position and most often you're not. The camera clearly has issues for all races. D:

I have the same issue as your boyfriend. Sometimes flinging the camera up then down very quickly will make it dislodge itself from a wall. But most of the time I just have to deal with a super close up view of my head and a wall.

As someone who has the plays a maximum size fat norn, i have the opposite problem. I've actually had to forgo some of the jumping puzzles and chests simply because i cant see around myself at times. Either that or the camera gets wonky and attaches itself to a wall

Speaking of camera's. What the hell is this with the camera getting "Stuck" and you can't see if you are moving or not? This never happened in any of the beta weekends and its suddenly in the final build. Somethings wrong.

i agree totally there is a lot of camera collision that are truly annoying like ex in queenshire ( that might be wrong) the wine fields every time i run thru them the camera zooms in then out repeatedly cause of the sticks..pretty annoying also when trying to go up a castle wall and look up like in WvWvW i cant see anything or target or whatever the camera just get stuck and stay still.. kinda hard to explain that one but i agree somthing is bad about the camera and how it collides with objects also

You know, I've not had any complaints about the camera on my two short Asura ... and that's why implementing the 'fix' as a slider is a fantastic idea. Seriously, camera height as a slider I can get behind 100%.

Amen my asura brother. They need to switch to a fixed camera system like WoWs. That camera goes through terrain well, works on every size character and can zoom out so you can actually see your entire field of vision.

The biggest issue that I have faced as an Asura is a skill challenge in the Bloodtide zone on Stormbluff Isle. It requires you to shoot targets with a cannon from a tower. Because of the low origin for projectiles on Asura, guess what? The cannons do not fire over the wall of the tower. Thus, Asura can not complete this challenge.

Totally approve this, its not even for Asura. If you want to take in the sights, your gonna have the ground / grass right there blocking it. Or have your character model take up the middle of screen unless you /sleep and hide hud.

Many many improvements are needed for the camera. Can't say it enough.

There is another related issue. Even though you are an assura - if you make the camera to have the closest position possible - you will see that pistol shots, arrows etc are coming from the air above your head. Not a critical thing, but pretty much annoying.

Oh god yes. I did the Jumping puzzle in lions arch today and it took me almost an hour to clear because of the camera being shitty. The little maze was hell because i couldnt get the camera to not bore into the back of my head.

It would actually be really great if ArenaNet implemented a global (i.e. not race-specific) camera height slider, allowing us to raise or lower the camera.

It'd be really helpful in a number of scenarios. Allows you to look upwards (there is a lot of scenery above your top peripheral vision) without camera clipping. A higher view point may also allow better positioning and coordination in battle. And finally, when you're exploring and just running around, a low camera gives a really nice gliding feeling.

Since I've only played on asura I can't say if it's different for the other races. But who plays with their view tilted up that much? You can't see the situation that well, not to mention target ground targeted abilities accurately.

A comparison picture between the higher races would really help this discussion move forward.

I just wish you could choose the camera range, or "fov". I usually play fully zoomed out so my character is tiny and even downloaded a camera zoom mod in WoW when I used to played it. The camera is so damn close..

I also have been VERY frustrated about the camera when in confined quarters. The way it should be coded is to change the way things are rendered. If there is a surface between the camera and the character, it should be transparent(perhaps as a wireframe) and the camera should not 'auto pan' to avoid said obstacle.

It'd be pretty nice to have the camera be a little more flexible. Even as a charr whenever I run by a fence or something like that I'll often have the camera start to get 'stuck' in it, to the point that it even starts to restrict my movement a bit. Ticking off the 'enable free camera' in the options didn't seem to help this, either!

I've more or less gotten used to the super-low camera for my Asura, but it was the first thing I noticed when I made him and it still bums me out a bit. The left/right slider for the camera was a really neat idea, so I'm sure doing the opposite as an extra option wouldn't be hard to implement. I sure hope they do!

Whats more annoying is when you try to do some jump puzzles and you get in close to a wall and BAM zoomed the fuck in so you can't see shit anymore, Also the same when in WvW and your on top of a fort and you get close to the edge and it zooms you in.... its annoying

horrible, every time you die, indoors, running through bushes, obstacles the camera resets or gets in strage angles where you can't see shit, also this bad shuttering and grapical glitches. And the camera distance option does nothing on my game. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED ASAP ...died many times because of this.

If you change the Asura camera, then you'd have to change everyone else's. Asuras have a distinct advantage in certain jumping puzzles as they have a lower camera, they can avoid entire branches and leaves in their face that the other, taller, races have to deal with.

Yeah I love Asura, and at first I thought it was interesting that the camera is closer to the ground cause I'm shorter, but it really takes away form a lot of the beauty of Tyria that ANet worked so hard on.